Glossary

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• AIC (Amalgamated Interests Council): An illuminati of business owners working together to control planet earth for profit.

• Atheletiskyn: A Dermidos (under D) brand suit to be worn during exercise to monitor all vital signs.

• Audon: German luxury car manufacturer.

• B.A. City: Northern California megacity.

• The Betweens: A colloquialism for the space between the cities. 

• Bovidae Biotechnics: South African cattle producer.

• Breaker: Hacker

• Bub: Slur for someone who grew up in a burb.

• Burb: Corporate apartment structures where employees can work from home and have all their needs met.

• BurbSec: Burb security.

• BurbSec Zetas: ThutoCo’s corporate military.

• Carcer Corporation: Private military force used by many cities as a police force.

• Carcer City: A prison city run by the Carcer Corporation. There are several such cities.

• CerebralSync: Brainwave controlled digital experiences.

• Comph: The largest clothing brand in the world.

• Conka: Popular slot machine style gambling device.

• Crassun Emergency Services: For-hire fire and emergency medical treatment with additional at cost transportation to your nearest hospital. They also do corpse removal.

• Cybermesh: Digital fabric.

• D2E: Internet provider and entertainment company.

• Dermidos: An electronic full-body suit with many features from cloaking to temperature control depending on the model.

• DigPlate: Optical enhancement device that replaces an eye with a computer.

• DLI: ThutoCo company currency.

• Dronepack: A dangerous and illegal form of personal transportation- a metal backpack that can move operators via flight.

• Drudge: A robot with vaguely human shape manufactured and sold by Xuefeng Technologies.

• Dyeus Industries: Company that established the first off-world colonies.

• Esodo Automotive: Italian flighted car manufacturer.

• Fibermail: A strong, bullet resistant mesh worn under armor plating.

• Foddier: Food synthesizer.

• Graymaker: Electronics dampening device.

• Great Black: Outer space.

• The Great Pandemic: A period of disease that killed much of the human population and forced people into walled-off megacities.

• Gro4All: Vat meat producer

• HackAd: Digital advertisement that utilizes neural implant to advertise directly to the brain.

• Hex: Individual apartment within a burb housing unit.

• HoloAds: Holographic advertisements.

• Holoprojector: Machine that projects holograms.

• Hoplite Motorcycle Club (MC): A worldwide ‘one-percenter’ gang whose members typically ride motorcycles.

• Kingfisher Munitions: Electronic weapon manufacturer.

• Legion Motorcycle Club (MC): A worldwide ‘one-percenter’ gang whose members typically ride motorcycles.

• Lenscreen: Digital contact lens.

• Levitengine: Thruster on flighted vehicle.

• The Mass Illusion: The most popular virtual reality

• Miners Football Club (FC): The premier soccer team of B.A. City.

• Neo Dark Age: A time of economic and government collapse that followed the Great Pandemic.

• NeoVerge Industries: Company formed by off-world rebels after breaking with Dyeus.

• The Night Crystal: Carcer Corporation headquarters in B.A. City.

• Opperistic Wealth Network: The largest international bank.

• Palmscreen: A touchscreen-based smart devise cybernetically sewn to a user’s palm.

• Pristiners: A sect of people who believe the human body should not be augmented.

• Prophet Root (“P-Root”): Genetically engineered plant whose root can be processed into food, stalked and leaves into materials and helps to restore the environment.

• Quix Fix: Chain of 24-hour urgent care facilities 

• REGNAD display: In-helmet digital display for security officials.

• Relief Aide: Humanoid robots (manufactured by Atsuko AndroiTech) used for pleasure by humans.

• RENTec Building Associates: Large building ownership group.

• RePurp Industries: Salvage company that uses pieces scrounged from the world outside the major cities.

• Rises: B.A. City neighborhood where all the businesses were built out on platforms that jut out from the sides of former apartments.

• Scuba: Nomadic raiders who live outside the city walls. So named for the breathing apparatus they wear.

• SeaDome: ThutoCo vacation complex.

• Smartshades: Sunglasses with cellular and mobile computing functions.

• Suggi-O’s: A synthetic sugar based meal in a can for children.

• Teotl Coffee: An American multinational chain of coffeehouses and roastery reserves headquartered in B.A. City

• Thermaskyn: A Dermidos (under D) brand suit to be worn during exercise to monitor all vital signs.

• ThutoCo Bioengineering: Company that provides electricity and genetically modified crops.

• Tomar LTD: Mexican food manufacturer.

• Vat Food: Laboratory grown food products.

• Wall Burg: B.A. City neighborhood which abuts the wall around the city. 

• Warden: Carcer Corp senior officer. Permitted to collect Carcer bounties.

• Xuefeng Technologies: Chinese drudge manufacturer.